âThe Master Saysâ: Speech and Silence in the Analects

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Chapter 5 âThe Master Saysâ: Speech and Silence in the Analects

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004529014_007

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This essay studies how the matrix of speech and silence in the Analects produces commentaries in the Confucian tradition. The dynamics of the commentarial tradition established the very architectonics of Chinese classical thought, enduring for more than two millennia. In short, the teachings of Confucius âthe Uncrowned Kingâ began as oral production, were then transcribed by his disciples into inchoate âfragments,â and, after generations and generations of commentaries, were codified into an immense institutional canon, thereby constituting the official âsystemâ of Confucianism. The essay also provides theoretical, cross-cultural reflections on the genre of aphorisms in global wisdom literature.

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After Wisdom

Sapiential Traditions and Ancient Scholarship in Comparative Perspective

Series:Â Philological Encounters Monographs, Volume: 4

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004529014

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 05 Dec 2022

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Part 1 Comparing Greek and Chinese Wisdom Literatures

Part 2 Chinese Wisdom Literature as Seen from Greece

Part 3 Greek Wisdom Literature as Seen from China

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